‘Himalayan’ pink salt being delivered by horse cart in Punjab, India
Here’s a link to a fantastic photo-essay on ‘Himalayan’ pink salt because quite a few customers have asked about this and are surprised to hear the story of the mines.
Personally, it’s not a product I will stock: it’s not renewable, the region is valuable geologically, and I am unconvinced that miner and donkey welfare can be assured during the extraction process.
Yes: when I lived in Amritsar I would buy about 100kg of ‘Pakistani’ salt as it is known, for my horses. We’d go to the railway bridge where it would be heaped on the roadside, or sitting on the back of a horse cart. As the story of Alexander the Great’s explains, it’s extremely popular with horses! It’s strange to me now that I’d never even imagined it came from a mine and was completely non-renewable!